Computer-based transportation applications and databases have been a fact of life for several decades. Transportation information, however, has often not been accessible in a user-friendly manner, and integrating data from diverse sources has too often been a challenge in itself. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) have revolutionized spatial planning and decision making by using the spatial dimension of the depicted world as a common thread according to which all information can be referenced. The application of GIS to transportation research (GIS-T) is quickly becoming a mature domain of application of the GIS technology and has gained full recognition among transportation practitioners and academics. This book fills a void by providing an overview of the state-of-the-art of GIS for transportation, from data management issues, to data manipulation and analysis, including considerations brought to the forefront by real-time and mobile computing. The twenty-two original contributions by internationally acclaimed authors will be a key reference for practitioners, students and scholars.
Content:
• Front Matter
• Preface
• Table of Contents
•Volume 1 1. Geographic Information Systems for Transportation in Perspective
2. A Geographic Information System Framework for Transportation Data Sharing
3. Dynamic Location: An Iconic Model to Synchronize Temporal and Spatial Transportation Data
4. Map Accuracy and Location Expression in Transportation - Reality and Prospects
5. A Three-Stage Computational Approach to Network Matching
6. Some Map Matching Algorithms for Personal Navigation Assistants
7. A Query Resolution Engine to Handle a Path Operator with Multiple Paths
8. Development of a Transit Network from a Street Map Database with Spatial Analysis and Dynamic Segmentation
9. Intermodal and International Freight Network Modeling
10. A New Framework for the Integration, Analysis and Visualisation of Urban Traffic Data within Geographic Information Systems
11. Interactive Geovisualization of Activity-Travel Patterns Using Three-Dimensional Geographical Information Systems: A Methodological Exploration with a Large Data Set
•Volume 2 12. Modeling Regional Mobile Source Emissions in a Geographic Information System Framework
13. Development and Evaluation of a Hybrid Travel Time Forecasting Model
14. Integration of the Global Positioning System and Geographical Information Systems for Traffic Congestion Studies
15. Performance Measures and Data Requirements for Congestion Management Systems
16. The Effects of Highway Transportation Corridors on Wildlife: A Case Study of Banff National Park
17. Mapping Evacuation Risk on Transportation Networks Using a Spatial Optimization Model
18. Spatial Decision Support System for Hazardous Material Truck Routing
19. A Spatial Decision Support System for Retail Plan Generation and Impact Assessment
20. Optimizing Path Query Performance: Graph Clustering Strategies
21. Design and Development of Interactive Trip Planning for Web-Based Transit Information Systems
22. An Internet-Based Geographic Information System That Integrates Data, Models and Users for Transportation Applications
Subject Index